books about ACT and mindfulness

Here are some books on ACT, mindfulness and acceptance that I recommend to my clients:

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, Steven Hayes. A step-by-step guide to mindfulness, acceptance and commitment.

Leave Your Mind Behind, Matthew Mckay & Catherine Sutker. A collection of mindfulness and acceptance exercises.

ACT on life not on anger, Georg Eifert, Matthew Mckay, John Forsyth. An ACT approach to working with anger.

The Worry Trap, Chad Lejeune. An ACT approach to working with anger.

Path is the Goal, Chogyam Trungpa. A classic introduction to mindfulness from a Buddhist perspective.

Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life, Natalie Goldberg. Writing as a path to mindfulness and the present moment.

Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach. A practical approach to embracing life's pains and pleasures.

Awake in the Wild, Mark Coleman. Learning mindfulness by working with the natural world.

The Calm Technique, Paul Wilson. A simple, secular approach to learning mindfulness.

Here are some clinically-oriented books that I recommend for counselors, therapists and people that really want to dig into ACT:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An experiential approach to behavior change. Hayes, Strosahl, Wilson. The definitive guide to ACT.

A Practical Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Hayes, Stroshal. After "An experiential approach", the book to read next.

Relational Frame Theory. Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, Roche. The definitive guide to the language theory underneath ACT; not for the faint-of-heart.

Learning ACT. Luoma, Hayes, Walser. A step-by-step clinical guide for teaching yourself about ACT.

ACT for Depression. Zettle. A clinical manual for treating depression.

ACT for PTSD. Walser, Westrup. A clinical manual for treating post-traumatic stress disorder.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain. Dahl, Wilson, Luciano, Hayes. A clinical manual for treating chronic pain.

Mindfulness and Acceptance. Hayes, Follette, Linehan. A guide to mindfully-based therapies.

You can also find more books and papers on ACT and RFT by visiting the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science web site.

web sites about ACT and mindfulness

Here are a few web sites for learning about ACT, acceptance and mindfulness:

Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. For all things ACT, oriented toward clinicians.

ACT discussion lists. A selection of "consumer" and "professional" email-based discussion groups with subscription options.

A selection of ACT web sites. Chosen by a few of the leading researchers in ACT.

Contemplative Psychotherapy Net. A directory of therapists with a mindfulness orientation.

The Center for Mindfulness. Home of the Stress Reduction Project, an effort to help people work mindfully with chronic pain.

You can also find information on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by visiting my collection of links and resources on mindful counseling.